Help! PPC Washing Hands on Holy Thursday

[BartholomewB]

To the OP: consult your bishop. Abide by his answer, whatever it is.

If it’s been going on for twenty years, surely it’s a pretty safe bet it has the bishop’s approval. I would have no interest in watching a garbled version of the Holy Thursday foot-washing ceremony. I’d try and find a church where they do it properly.

 

[ServentsOf_Mary]

So at some point you folks started riding the crazy train and talking about eating geneua pigs.

This is exactly what happens at most ppc meetings.

 

[Diaconia]

Seems very bizarre, indeed.

But if it has been occurring for 20 years, most likely the bishop has heard about it already.

Probably not a hill worth dying on; maybe attend the Mass of the Lord’s Supper at another parish.

Like a sheep before it’s shearer, he opened not his mouth,
Deacon Christopher

 

[Phemie]

Seems very bizarre, indeed.

But if it has been occurring for 20 years, most likely the bishop has heard about it already.

Probably not a hill worth dying on; maybe attend the Mass of the Lord’s Supper at another parish.

Like a sheep before it’s shearer, he opened not his mouth,
Deacon Christopher

When I first moved to this town the only parish available did hand washing at the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. I thought that was super stupid so when I got on Parish Council I mentioned that the only reference to hand washing in the Bible was Pilate’s action and asked if we could return to washing feet.

At first there was an uproar because the foot washing had originally been abandoned because the choice of men was perceived as elitist and rewarding a certain group. But the new pastor decided hand washing was over and, instead of handpicking them, he invited men to sign up for it. Not one man put his name down and that first year women’s feet were washed, not what I had envsioned. He only washed a few women’s feet since the rubrics don’t specify a number. There was grumbling but over the years men started signing up and after a few years we were seeing twelve men up there. When the Holy Father changed the rubrics to include women and children, our parish was ready.

 

[FiveLinden]

So with all due respect to the OP and the genuine concern experienced I should report that it is late where I am and i have taken a sleeping pill. I began to doze off and awoke suddenly, startled by an image of the ritual washing by a priest of guinea pigs. Time for bed now.